![]() Here too Atwood is putting across a relevant and intelligent political message, which can easily be summed up: don't trust the scientists and the big corporations to run the world.īefore catastrophe strikes, the main features of Jimmy's world are based on the gradual exaggeration of some of the most dismal current trends in western society - internet pornography, gated communities, genetic modification. Oryx and Crake is, by comparison, a more derivative vision. But Oryx and Crake lacks some of the subtler imaginative power of Atwood's previous novel set in a dystopian future, The Handmaid's Tale, which was full of convincing detail and had an individual heroine. Will Jimmy reveal how the great biological disaster was released? Will Snowman survive starvation, injury, and attack by mutant monster pigs? Throughout the book the wheels of the plot turn relentlessly sometimes you feel almost breathless. Although the structure sounds complicated, the novel never loses its forward momentum. ![]()
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